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I haven't tested the current version on Sisi but I hope this bug has been fixed before it goes to TQ.

I think that screenshot was from build 330650 or the one previous to it.

Personally I rarely use ANY of the neocom buttons, I have keyboard shortcuts bound to open the windows I use most often.

But, for the love of internet spaceships, why, oh WHY can't I resize windows to any size I want? Some windows, like People & Places and Science & Industry won't let me make them smaller and waste a LOT of valuable screen space. With the PIanets tab open on the Science & Industry window, 4/5 of the window is empty, yet I can't just shorten it up to just the small size I want it to be. A long time ago I used to be able to make the People & Places window very short to show just a few bookmarks, now I either have to leave the giant thing open all the time or keep toggling it. Each window should be possible to shorten almost all the way to the titlebar, or at least to the minimum height the scrollbar can be.

And my number one nitpicking gripe about UI... STOP CHANGING MY CAMERA VIEW! Why oh WHY does my camera get reset on every jump? I go to the trouble to zoom to the distance and angle that I want, NOTHING should ever change that but ME! If I want to be zoomed out to 100k and angled up a certain way, I shouldn't have to re-zoom and move my view every time I jump. JUST LEAVE MY CAMERA VIEW ALONE!

Yep icons need some work.
I like text tabs at the bottom of the screen but maybe thats just me.
Group tabs need to be nameable and colorable.

UI devblog

I was expecting something beter

That's a good point. Though it should therefor get easier to close windows. I for one would like to have the close button of windows 1. always visible and 2. in the top left corner.

Yey! Finally the new neocom! \o/

There are LOTS of things in new OSs to be inspired.
But here my thoughts:

- Autohide animation. Please? (Show animation when the mouse is near).

- Button scrolling, a-lá-Ubuntu. This means, when you fill the Neocom with too many buttons, you scroll them using the mouse wheel (optional).

- Please, improve the icons.

- Good pulsating effect, to get the attention of the user. And also, for "hidden" Neocon, show animation > pulsation > hide animation.

- Hover button magnification, a-lá-Mac OS (optional). This means, you can set up the Neocom to "embiggen" the icon if the cursor is hovering it. You can define the small size, and the big, magnified, size, and animate the transition on hover.

- For minimized windows: a) thumbnail on hover and b) some indication that the window changed its state.
For b), very important if you minimize, but want to know if something changes on that window (kind of like minimized local chat).

I hope some of these are included.
Keep the good work!

+1 for UI changes. Does this bring some performance increase as well?

-10000000000000000000000000000000000000000^10000000000000000000000000000000000000 for having toggle minimize. I HATE HATE HATE HATE HATE having minimized windows down below.

That blue bar under the portrait... Is that for current skill progress? Nice touch. Any chance I can get an isk balance next to the wallet icon, too? Or optionally put progress bars for my current research/manufacturing jobs on the neocom if I've got room? It doesn't need to be just buttons on there.

By the way, and I totally know this isn't the right thread for this but since UI artists are looking at this thread I thought I'd mention it.

When you take a look at the in-game UI elements, it would be great to get ui icons that don't cover up the ship, but perhaps have a feint circle bounding box with a little UI representing the object type (large ship, small ship, etc) somewhere in the upper right. Perhaps the HUD icons and bounding boxes can be .5 alpha until you mouse over them or mouse over their respective row in the Overview. This would eliminate screen clutter and make huge space battles look a bit less like a green & red Jackson Pollack painting.

Back on topic - Very glad to hear it regarding the note above about an update to the icons. I do have a question about performance though, is the UI engine now running on its own asynchronous thread so that other graphical rendering troubles or connection lag won't effect the UI interaction response and animation? I thought I noticed a bit of a jump in overall UI speed, but wasn't sure. I hate rolling over buttons that are lagging several frames behind my mouse cursor, it makes everything feel sluggish. Same goes for moving around windows.